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  1. Does anyone know how Portstewart Tram Loco No.1 ended up in Hull, of all places? Likewise the Ryde pier tramway "grapes" car?
  2. I began my spotting career in Bristol and there was an alien world only a few miles away. Severn Tunnel Junction was a frontier point beyond which reigned the hordes of Class 37s, almost never seen in Bristol. Just a couple of miles further came the sight of Llanwern steelworks, resembling a portal into Hades. Then came Newport where you could stand on the platforms and watch the unending succession of coal and ore trains passing through. Further on was the lure of Woodham's at Barry, and the mysterious labyrinth of the Valleys where, it was rumoured, steam locos were still to be seen at work.
  3. MIldmay is a bit awkward to say and people won't know if it's pronounced milled or mylde.
  4. Not from Flickr, but rather the Sankey Photographic Archive. https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=900417 A picture of the Ravenglass & Eskdale when it was mixed gauge between Ravenglass and Murthwaite
  5. I think I remember this apricot colour on several stations in the Westcountry, as seen here at Newquay in 1974
  6. I stand corrected. Saturdays seem a good bet. However, as mentioned above, not much of a benefit to those of us who have railcards.
  7. I've tried again without success, so I'm not convinced that GWR are actually participating in the sale.
  8. I've tried finding some discounted tickets from Bristol but so far without success. I started at https://greatbritishrailsale.nationalrail.co.uk/#/great-british-rail-sale I left the "Trains To" field blank and searched. It brought up a list of destinations for which discounted tickets are supposedly available. It is evident that the only journeys available are those that involve a single operator. I scrolled to the destination Barnstaple, which is shown as having a Rail Sale fare of £10 I clicked Show Retailers, and was then invited to Buy Tickets from the default vendor GWR. I clicked Buy Tickets. Since the GWR site wasn't working I tried searching for the same journey on the Chiltern website, which helpfully shows Cheapest Singles for that journey. I iterated through all the dates up to the end of the sale and found NOT ONE offer of a discounted fare, On the other hand I looked on the Chiltern website for a journey from Birmingham via Chiltern and found plenty of Sale tickets. So it seems that GWR is being very mean and hardly offering any Sale tickets, or possibly they've failed to adapt their website in time to accommdate the sale. I did find on the London & North Western site a useful FAQ https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/railsale This confirms the supposition that railcard discounts are not applicable to Sale tickets, which means that the sale is in any case of limited benefit to railcardholderslike myself.
  9. Does anyone know an email address for Customer Support at The Trainline? I want to contact them about an apparent fault on their website. Although their website declares that Custoner Support can be contacted by email, I can find no reference to an address.
  10. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-great-british-rail-sale-returns-discounts-on-over-a-million-rail-tickets Does anyone know how this is going to work, based on experience of the previous such event two years ago? In particular, are the cheap tickets going to be offered on all routes, and how long before they all sell out? Do you have to be ready to book on the stroke of midnight on Jan 23rd in order to have a chance of getting any cheap tickets at all?
  11. I'd say that to qualify as a "real steam" service, regular fares should be charged and ordinary tickets be valid. Where premium fares are charged and passengers travel expressly to experience steam, that is not "real steam".
  12. A very enjoyable show with a great selection of layouts. Thanks to all concerned.
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